Day 1

We've officially traded this:

For this:

We successfully drove to New Haven, CT on Tuesday after a busy day of last minute cleaning and packing the car (thanks for the note, Arielle!). We had our first relaxing night in quite a while and stayed overnight there before saying goodbye to the kitties and continuing on to my parents. We got to the farm this afternoon and spent a few hours moving in and meeting our fellow student farmers along with the other staff of the farm. We had a delicious dinner of beef stew and all of the ingredients came from the farm including the piping hot apple crisp for dessert.

We have two rooms to ourselves in the farm house- perfect for visitors!- although I wish we had brought a dresser or something since we have one bed, four shelves and one unfurnished room for 12 months. Perhaps craigslist will turn up a couch or desk for our second room so that we can actually use it. Too bad we have everything we would need... in storage.

Soon my Red Sox flag will go up on the wall opposite Theo's new Phillies' one and we'll have pictures hung of all our friends. For now, we're happy to not have to pack or move anything and begin to settle in.